It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.'… — Dennis Conner Copy Share Image
I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're… — Richard Mourdock Copy Share Image
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
May we not have a picture of Christ, who has a true body? By no means; because, though he has a true… — James Fisher Copy Share Image
We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch. — Scott McNealy Copy Share Image
In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in. — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know. — Sue Johanson Copy Share Image
If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their… — King James I Copy Share Image
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it. — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image